A higher-education cybersecurity briefing cited a sharp volume of attacks across the sector, with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) estimating roughly 4,200 attacks per week in 2026. The reporting frames the threat picture as stable but unacceptable, emphasizing that steady attack levels still indicate persistent exposure. The guidance highlights the operational reality universities face: increasing threats against campus systems, expanding digital dependencies, and the need for repeatable resilience planning rather than one-time hardening. For higher education compliance and IT governance leaders, the most urgent implication is that resilience programs must be measurable—aligned to incident response capacity, identity and access controls, and continuous monitoring—because attacker volume is already normalized.